Norwalk police: Teen hid from DCF in a dead man’s home

NORWALK — A woman had her 16-year-old daughter break into and stay at a dead man’s home to avoid the scrutiny of the Department of Children and Families during an investigation into an overdose death, according to a sworn affidavit.

The charges stem from an incident on March 11 when Doty’s friend overdosed and died at her Elmcrest Terrace home. When police responded to the overdose, Doty, who already has a younger daughter in the full-time care of DCF, told her daughter to lay low in the home of a “friend,” the affidavit said.

The affidavit said that Doty advised her daughter and her boyfriend, 19-year-old Julius Beau, of Stratford, to enter the home in question through a back window. What Doty didn’t tell her daughter, according to the affidavit, was that the home belonged to an Army veteran who had recently died, and that they had no permission from the owner to be on site.

While staying at the home, the daughter and Beau found a loaded gun, an assortment of rare coins and a silver bar. Police said Beau allegedly gave the gun to a friend, and pawned the rest for $20.

Beau was arrested Tuesday and charged with two counts of third-degree burglary, two counts of sixth-degree larceny and stealing a firearm.

Doty was arrested on the following day. She was held on $25,000 bond and given a court date of April 18.

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